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Remarkable German peace initiative calls for rapid negotiations
In an open letter, leftwingers are calling on Chancellor Scholz to step up efforts to mediate a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine. What are we waiting for in other Western countries to launch a similar initiative, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
A girl pets her cat in the yard of her house in Bohoyavlenka, Ukraine
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FORMER senior SPD politicians, union members and well-known representatives of the peace movement have called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz in an open letter to urge urgent negotiations to end the fighting in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. (The full letter can be found below.)
The war has degenerated into “bloody trench warfare in which there are only losers,” according to the letter.
It is crucial to stop the escalation of the war. “With each passing day, the danger of an expansion of hostilities grows. The shadow of nuclear war hangs over Europe. The world must not slip into another major war.”
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